Sentence examples for position of modest from inspiring English sources
With regards to the 2013 data, one can observe a certain discrepancy between the excellent results in terms of innovation commercialization and Romania'sconstant position of modest innovator, with aggregated results well below the EU average.
Now, as the school system faces at least $358 million in additional cuts under Mr. Bloomberg's budget proposal, Mr. Levy has told some colleagues and friends that staying much longer would only put him in the position of watching his modest successes get whittled away.
In 1306 Muḥammad III (ruled 1302 09), then in possession of Ceuta and Gibraltar, seemed to have succeeded, but a powerful coalition soon reduced him to the modest position of vassal of the king of Castile.
Henry IV was neither greatly interested in poetry nor notably generous, but Malherbe attained the position of court poet and a modest living from court patronage.
What is more, if Tendulkar triumphed amid adversity, conquering the world from a position of weakness and carrying a modest side on his shoulders, his successors dominate from a position of strength.
For example, Acevedo-Garcia and colleagues observed that the well known protective effect of higher socioeconomic position of the mother was more modest for foreign born Hispanics than for the native born [ 3].
Which is not as much of a problem as one might expect, given the Baker's lofty driving position and modest top speed of 25 miles an hour.
Poisoned Pen has smartly positioned itself as a small publishing house where authors of modest reputation are always welcome — so long as they have a strong regional voice.
Its Chair was recently forced out of his position but left with a pension of US$1 million a year -- another example where taxpayers of modest means are left holding the bag and the culprits escape and profit from their misdeeds.
A modest version captures the position of naturalistically-inclined but not outright naturalist philosophers.
DEPARTMENT OF MODEST PROPOSALS parodying Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".
